Jonathas de Andrade "Nostalgia, sentimento de classe"

The project takes the wall panel of a tropical modern house as a
departure point. The house, an exemplar of modern architecture in
northeastern Brazil, was built in Recife in the 1960’s and was in the
final moments of being sold to real estate developers at the time this
project was made.

The house is one of the few remaining of its kind – its openness to the
street renders it vulnerable in a way that is unthinkable in the current
city’s security-obsessed time. It is in fact two homes in one, the
symmetrical structure conjoins two families and seamlessly connects
public and private life. These ideals embodied by the house seem to
resound with the social and political concerns of modernism, whose
formal elements accommodated ideologies about communal living and local
aesthetics.

The original ceramic tiles are transformed into fiberglass pieces of the
same size (15x15cm) but adding to them a new dimension – a volume of
10cm – becoming a hyper-reproduction of the original.

Is nostalgia a sentiment only possessed and consumed by the upper-class?

A large installation text comprised of the writings of Brazilian
architect Marcous Vasconcellos and architect/artist Flavio de Carvalho
is fully charged with the utopian ideals of their time, characterized
with resolute political stances that are uncommon in today’s writing on
architecture.

The panel of tiles is partially reproduced and its tiles gradually
obstruct keywords of Vaconcellos’s and Carvalho’s texts about
architecture, mankind and civilization. As a consequence, both the text
and the original building are emptied of meaning and specificities, thus
becoming ruins, mimicking and speeding up the natural process of
history.